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FINAL PRESENTATION

On Tuesday this week, we showed our final prints for the magazine and received feedback. This is what i showed:

The colours came out beautifully and I was very happy with the results. Here's the feedback I received:

The colours and illustrations were met with good reactions, especially the cover and the first spread, which I was especially proud of.

For the things I could improve: the cover and the final pink spread. For the cover, it came off as more of a poster rather than a magazine cover. To improve it, I made these changes:

Before (left) and after (right)

First, I removed the grain/noise effect I put on Relay. I first added it to match the texture of the illustration but that made it more poster-like. I made it crisp and matched its colour to the yellow circle on the background. Then, I lowered everything a bit to make space at the top for additional text. I also removed the white border since all of my text was in the image anyway.

It was cool to see how those small details made it look much more like a magazine and I'm happy with the final result!

For this spread, I was told that it looked a bit different from the rest since it's all pink. I thought about adding complementary colour accents but here's why I didn't:

Unlike the other spreads, this one only carried one idea. The first spread is supposed to cover the general idea that fashion styles can vastly change how you identify or are identified by others - a juxtaposition I helped clarify using complimentary colours.

On the next spread, it covered two ideas in the article - cultural contexts and group identities, therefore I assigned a monochromatic colour scheme to each of them. I made them complimentary as well so they would look nice next to each other. The pull quotes were the exception from the monochrome so the pages of the spread would interact better.

Week 8

Small text adjustments

Change all pull quotes to light blue

I think it looks even better with these small changes. Printed out and cut down, makes it seem even more like a real magazine and professional. I love what I have made this term, and didn't think I would at one point, like anything I made.

Week 7

Week 6

I visited the Russell-Cotes Museum in my spare time and came across a lot that related to my project. The Painting below is about sirens which as it says: portrayed by Greek art as heads of women and bodies of birds. I found that kind of interesting. There were also a lot of female statues, most statues were actually quite small but I still felt like they related to my theme. Lastly, the glass ceiling had zodiac imagery on which is really cool, as they are showing the constellation through the sky light.

Week 7

Now I have finished the magazine, I put it into issuu so that I can flip through it, and used Graphic Burger to make mock ups of it. I love how it turned out, especially having multiple brain blocks and trying so many layouts that I was not happy with. It all works perfectly and looks like one magazine article instead of each page not really matching up with the other.

Week 7

After printing out the magazine, I realised that it needed to be more simplified to show the images, instead of taking away from them and the article. I had a lot of trouble with the second spread, so I re designed it completely, adding in a photo with all of the instax. I love this photo, it shows them off so well, with the lighting and textures, you can see they are transparent. I also like that the only other thing with it is a quote, in a matching colour. With all the spreads the imagery is on the same side, I did this on purpose so that it is easy to follow the article.

Lastly, I changed around the last page so that it fit everything in perfectly.

Week 7

I printed out my magazine after all the feedback edits, and then got Ellie to peer review it. I agreed with the fact you can't see the patterns and images properly with the dark blue.

Week 7

After my tutorial I tried out adding in more colour, the issue I had is that, although I had removed the background on Photoshop it still showed up on InDesign. It looks okay, but I don't know if it is too much. I already have a pattern going on, and I don't want it to take too much from the actual article. I really like my third spread which has the bigger image and text. It really shows the photos properly and their texture. I will print it of and see how it looks.

The feedback I was to change the sub-headings, to make them bolder and bigger and to change the paragraph spacing, so that it is indents instead of spaces.